Sentences with phrase «rocket landing in»

After several failed attempts, SpaceX made a historic rocket landing in the middle of the ocean that could mean huge savings for commercial space travel.

Since Apple's new tools made their way to developers, we've seen some stunning demos that show off just how powerful the software can be, even on phones without the same camera and sensor hardware that will be baked into the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X. One, like a re-creation of A-Ha's «Take on Me» music video showed how ARKit could rip open portals into virtual worlds, while others showed off virtual SpaceX rockets landing in backyard swimming tools and life - like teacups balancing on a real dogs head.

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Depending on whether you're landing on a planet or a moon that has no atmosphere, a thin atmosphere, or a dense atmosphere, and depending on whether you're reentering with no payload in the front, a small payload, or a heavy payload, you have to balance the rocket out as it's coming in.

And then 2015, last year in December, that was definitely one of the best moments of my life: when the rocket booster came back and landed at Cape Canaveral.

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The study participants were asked to develop strategies for landing the rocket mentally; this, in turn, allowed the patients to strategize ways of blocking out hallucinatory voices inside their heads.

The BE-3 engine powers the New Shepard rocket, which launched, landed and successfully deployed an unmanned capsule in December.

Since its first attempt in January 2015, SpaceX has been trying to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rockets on a floating ocean platform.

In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial aerospace company had done before: It launched a satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, then safely landed the rocket's lower half, called a first - stage booster, on a launchpad.

In March it made industry history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket; six months before that, it watched as one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during refueling for a so - called test fire.

The SpaceX team didn't attempt to land on a barge in the ocean from the get - go, they instead practiced with lighter rockets, on land first.

The mission will launch using a Falcon 9 rocket, which will return to land on the SpaceX autonomous ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes after liftoff.

They constructed a rocket which could theoretically launch, release a payload, and land vertically minutes after take - off in order to be refueled and launched again at a later time, indefinitely.

SpaceX brought the idea of reusable rockets and their latest successful landing of the rocket is the big step in this regards.

If Tuesday's attempt is a success, and all three of its reusable boosters land themselves — a huge cost - saving shift in an industry that's used to discarding rockets after one launch — Musk said it could be «game over» for other heavy - lift systems.

In all, it has launched and landed six rockets — four at sea and two on dry land.

Earlier this month, Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and attempted to land it on a floating platform in the Atlantic ocean.

In addition to launching and hopefully landing the rocket, it will carry the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) «Deep Space Climate Observatory.»

Musk believes that SpaceX could begin landing spaceships on Mars as soon as 2022, while Muilenburg said on Thursday's that Boeing's own next generation rockets would be tested starting in 2019.

In the case of Blue Origin, the company's smallest vehicle can be used to practice flying and landing techniques that can then be applied to larger rockets that can launch satellites, Bezos said.

Saturday's flight marks the third successful launch - and - land for the rocket, with similar missions completed in January and November.

This photo shows the used, roughly 140 - foot - tall Falcon 9 rocket booster landing on a drone ship in the ocean.

«To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

The sole fatality was an Israeli - built satellite, but the accident nevertheless raised questions about SpaceX's mad dash into the solar system — particularly since it plans to use the same rocket, the Falcon 9, to ferry crews to the International Space Station in a few years (SpaceX has in the past supplied the ISS and successfully landed a Falcon 9 back on Earth so it can be reused).

Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos's commercial space - flight company, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed a rocket ship at its launch site in West Texas on Monday.

The rocket stage succeeded in hitting its target but landed too hard, exploding on the robotic boat's deck.

During that mission, a Dragon resupply ship will launch toward the station, and SpaceX will also attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on an «autonomous spaceport drone ship» in the Atlantic Ocean.

In response to a question about the planned Falcon 9 first - stage rocket landing, Musk said the stage would use «mostly gravity» to stay on the robotic ship, with «steel shoes over the landing feet as a precautionary measure.»

One of the first to offer congratulations to Elon Musk and SpaceX for nailing a rocket landing was Jeff Bezos, fellow billionaire rocketeer who founded his own space company, Blue Origin, in 2000, a couple of years before Musk started SpaceX.

Musk's frequent public appearances and active social media presence, coupled with SpaceX's very public, much - paraded launches and landings, has resulted in a truly unique — and thoroughly modern — rocket launch company.

«However, it's one thing to hear about entrepreneurs launching and landing rockets in the news, but it's quite another to see if for yourself.

• Craig Breedlove, former world land - speed record holder, describing how he knew he was in trouble when his rocket - powered auto became airborne at 377 mph: «The sky was in the wrong direction, and I saw it go round and round.»

So in the spirit of the holiday, I'd like to recount the story of the time my husband Don, then a teenager, shot some bottle rockets out of his butt, burnt all his arse - hair off, and landed in the ER.

He said that on housing, Labour «bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house builders but it's in their interests to bank land and ration housing so that house prices continue to rocket».

Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash - landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon.

NASA is rebooting its Mars landings, thanks to a smart idea from the cold war era, and high - stakes rocket tests in the desert.

In a dramatic feat of engineering prowess, the private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster yesterday — the second such landing for the company, and the first successful touchdown on a ship.

Russia stepped in the gap, pledging rockets to deliver the two missions to Mars, and also a landing system that would safely deliver the rover to the surface.

For instance, when the Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it kicked up enough dust to reveal water ice — a surprise to its builders, who hadn't thought that the lander's relatively weak rocket engines could have moved so much material.

It could scan Mars and map out subsurface pockets of water ice and even assist in X-marking a safe and sound landing zone for astronauts where they can draw on water for oxygen - sustaining needs as well as for concocting rocket fuel.

Supersonic retropropulsion is the same approach used by SpaceX in to land its reusable Falcon 9 rocket boosters.

A rocket riding this trajectory would have to behave like a marble that shot up from the bottom of a bowl and landed on the lip with just enough velocity to roll around on the edge without falling back in, or over.

A Falcon 9 rocket has just blasted off NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launching a Dragon capsule to the ISS before landing back on the ground

SpaceX plans for the rocket booster to return after launch and land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hundreds gathered last night to watch SpaceX attempt to launch and land an orbital rocket that had already been used — a first in space history.

With 16 successful rocket landings under its belt, along with two reused rockets and one reused Dragon spacecraft, Musk's rocket company has made giant leaps in reusable booster technology for sure.

Now their multi-pronged plan calls for the robotic spacecraft Chang» e 5 to launch in the second half of 2017 atop a Long March - 5 rocket, land on the moon and collect several pounds of lunar samples, then hurl the specimens back to Earth.

A sticky throttle valve doomed a rocket - landing try in April 2015.

According to the proposed timeline, Mars One will send a lone cargo - filled Dragon capsule to Mars in 2016, to test its ability to land safely using rockets in its sidewalls.

As for landing on Mars, one of the trickiest problems in spaceflight, Musk says that the spacecraft will use a propulsive landing method similar to the one that Falcon 9 rockets use.